Claude Cloutier is a Canadian film animator and illustrator based in Quebec. Cloutier to date has made seven short films with the

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. Cloutier began his animation career with the 1988 short ''The Persistent Peddler (Le colporteur)'', which was in competition at the

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. He first became widely known for ''

From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning ''From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning'' (french: Du big bang à mardi matin) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Claude Cloutier and released in 2000. The film tells the story of the evolution of life on earth in five minutes, through r ...

(Du big bang à mardi matin)'' in 2000, which was both a Genie Award nominee for

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at the

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,Liam Lacey, "Maelstrom storms the Genies". ''

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'', December 13, 2000. and a

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at the

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. His 2007 short ''

Sleeping Betty ''Sleeping Betty'' (french: Isabelle au bois dormant) is a Canadian animated short film by Claude Cloutier that humorously reinterprets the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Awards for the film include Best Animated Short at the 29th Genie Awa ...

(Isabelle au bois dormant)'' is a humorous

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adaptation that received numerous international and Canadian awards including both the Genie and the Jutra. His 2015 short ''

Carface ''Carface'' (french: Autos Portraits) is a 2015 National Film Board of Canada animated short film by Claude Cloutier in which cars sing and dance while the Earth slides toward environmental ruin. The film's central character is a 1957 Chevrolet ...

(Auto Portraits)'', received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation Film at

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in Montreal and had been

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ed for a possible Academy Award nomination. Cloutier has said that in his youth, it had been his dream to become an animated filmmaker and that when he began working as an illustrator, he did so with the hope of being able to transition into animation. He worked most notably as an illustrator with the now-defunct Quebec satirical magazine ''

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'', with two comic book-style series ''La légende des Jean-Guy'' and ''Gilles la Jungle contre Méchant-Man.'' His hoped-for entry into animation came when an NFB producer asked him if he wished to adapt ''La légende des Jean-Guy'' into an animated short, which resulted in ''The Persistent Peddler''. The summer of 2015, Cloutier did a two-week "Frame x Frame" exhibition at the

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, during which the public could watch him working on his next film. Cloutier has said his animation technique involves working first with paper and ink: "I draw on paper with brush, India ink and water, for nuance and half-tones. After that, it's colored by computer. I like to draw on paper. I'm old-school."

Filmography

*''The Persistent Peddler (Le colporteur)'' - 1988 *''Mirrors of Time'' - 1991 *''Overdose'' - 1995 *''Science Please! (Une minute de science, s.v.p.!)'' - 1998-2000 **''The Wind (Le Vent)'' **''Wheel Meets Friction (La roue contre la friction)'' **''Slippery Ice! (La glace glisse)'' **''The Force of Water (La force de l'eau)'' **''The Wonderful World of Colour (Le monde merveilleux de la couleur)'' **''The Internal Combustion Engine (Le moteur à explosion)'' *''

(Du big bang à mardi matin)'' - 2000 *''

The Trenches ''The Trenches'' (french: La Tranchée) is a Canadian animated short film, written, directed and animated by Claude Cloutier for the National Film Board of Canada.Bill Brownstein, "Animator takes a black-and-white approach to war in The Trenches". ...

(La Tranchée)'' - 2001 *''

(Isabelle au bois dormant)'' - 2007 *''

(Autos portraits)'' - 2015 *'' Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes)'' - 2021

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cloutier, Claude 1957 births Film directors from Quebec Canadian animated film directors Artists from Montreal Film directors from Montreal Canadian cartoonists Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Animated Short National Film Board of Canada people French Quebecers Living people